Neal Zaslaw
Neal Zaslaw (born June 28, 1939) is an American
musicologist
.
Life and career
Born in
CUNY, 1968-70. Since 1970 he has taught at Cornell University
.
Zaslaw's early work dealt with
performance practice, especially tempo and ornamentation with respect to French and Italian styles. Zaslaw has done extended work on the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, including a landmark 1989 work on his symphonies. In 1993, he was named the principal editor of the revised Köchel catalogue
.
Works
- Zaslaw, Neal (1994) "Mozart as a working stiff," in James M. Morris, ed., On Mozart, Cambridge University Press. An influential assertion of the practicality of Mozart's motivations in composition, attacking older conceptions as romanticized and unrealistic. Available on line: [1].
Books
- Materials for the Life and Works of Jean-Marie Leclair L’ainé (dissertation, Columbia U., 1970)
- with M. Vinquist: Performance Practice: a Bibliography (New York, 1971)
- (ed.) Man & Music:/Music in Society: The Classical Era (London, 1989)
- Mozart’s Symphonies: Context, Performance Practice, Reception (Oxford, 1989)
- The Compleat Mozart: a Guide to the Musical Works (New York, 1990)
- (ed. with F.M. Fein) The Mozart Repertory: a Guide for Musicians, Programmers, and Researchers (Ithaca, NY, 1991)
- (ed.) Mozart’s Piano Concertos: Text, Context, Interpretation (Ann Arbor, 1996)
- with ISBN 0-19-816434-3
Notable student
Nancy November – Professor of musicology in New Zealand
References
- Paula Morgan. "Neal Zaslaw". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians online.
- Liber amicorum
- ISBN 978-0-9819850-0-8
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